New Chinese Architecture

Product Description This celebration of 20 of China’s latest generation features detailed profiles of each architect, exploring their routes to success, their inspirations and the challenges posed for those working and designing in this richly diverse and rapidly evolving region. Each profile is followed by a selection of recent works, including everything from small-scale conceptual plans to country houses, schools, offices and large-scale city development projects. From exploring new ways to build with radical, sustainable materials to sensitively honouring the vernacular traditions of the country’s complex history, each architect brings their unique vision to the question of what architecture means in China today. Table of Contents Foreword by Xin Zhang • The Architects: Shaohua DI • Wowo DING • Mei DONG • Juan DU • Beilei FAN • Rossana HU • Ying JIANG • Heng LIU • Wenyu LU • Lele PENG • Shanshan QI • Yuen TANG • Luming WANG • Wei WANG • Youfen WANG • Na WEI • Min YE • Di ZHANG • Jinqiu ZHANG • Zhao ZHAO Review A must-read for anyone interested in the impact of a fast-accelerating infrastructure --Aesthetica Brilliantly organized around in-depth biographies, interview responses, and refined architectural photography, this is an essential overview of new directions in Chinese architecture -- ArchNewsNow China's rapid urbanisation has given oppotunities to a new generation of female architect. Austin Williams, a British architect who has taught in China, decided it was time to recognise their work - not as part of a 'patronising inclusion agenda,' he emphasises, but as innovative and important in its own right -- Wall Street Journal This book opens a way into thinking about the overwhelming architectural challenge of our time: how to urbanise and raise living standards for billions of people, and how some woman are successfully engaging with it. -- World Architecture Women are playing a pivotal role in Chinese architecture, and realised projects spotlighted in the new volume include everything from rural schools to gargantuan commercial developments in major cities..... Chinese architecture is now at a watershed moment. -- South China Morning Post China s women architects have proven themselves to be talented, confident, hard-working and successful. These are new, young female designers stepping onto the world stage. Their work is innovative and challenging. Whether traditional or contemporary, small or large scale, old or young, academic or practitioner, their projects show China to be a place of real creative possibilities --Zhang Xin, Co-founder and CEO SOHO China About the Author Austin Williams is senior lecturer in Professional Practice at Kingston School of Art and honorary research fellow at XJTLU University in China. He is the director of the Future Cities Project, China correspondent for the Architectural Review, contributing editor for AR Pacific Region and writes for L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. Zhang Xin, founder of SOHO China, has worked with many of the world's most renowned architects, including Kengo Kuma and the late Zaha Hadid.